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… that money just can’t buy

A few links some of you may appreciate:

Sometimes you just need to watch a video of 24 hopping baby goats. (via)

Incidental Comics gives us a handy guide to Proofreader’s Marks. (via a friend)

First footage of live colossal squid in its native environment.

---L.

Subject quote from Can’t Buy Me Love, The Beatles.

prettygoodword

marid (MAR-id) - n., a type of spirit in Arabian and Muslim mythology.

Generally understood as the most powerful class of jinn, the ones most favored by Iblis and so the most dangerous. Sometimes distinct from ifrit, and sometimes more or less a synonym. The name is from Arabic, of course, from the active participle of root m-r-d, rebellious/recalcitrant.

---L.

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sideways

Title: Sewer Stories
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT)
Wordcount: 1,504
Summary: Drabbles set in the TMNT 2003 universe.
Remarks: Had a bit of fun drabbling recently, so cross-posting across the first batch.

( 5 drabbles below )

galadhir

I've found a lady who has the same sort of shape as me, who dances the same kind of dance that I would love to dance. She has such precision and confidence-verging-on-arrogance and strength and lyricism and sweetness. I don't know that I can get my creaky old, arthritic person to do some of the things she does (that back bend!) but I love her sense of theatre. I love how she has combined bellydance with inspiration from sci-fi and theatre to make something that is very unique.

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Much though I like dancing, I haven't been able to find any genuine love in my heart for the whole 'scantily clad get in touch with your inner goddess who is also a sexy flirt' malarky, chiefly because I don't think I have an inner goddess of any kind, let alone a sexy one. But as a writer I 100% have an inner Evil Galactic Emperor, or an inner hero or villain character of a sort that I can lean into.

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So I the new dance I am now wrestling with is inspired by the plot in Stargate Universe in which Chloe - experimented on by aquatic aliens - fears she is losing her humanity, even while she grows stronger and more intelligent.

My question was, why the heck wouldn't you embrace that? Super strength? The ability to do maths? Sign me up.

I've just got to find a way of expressing this in dance.

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common_nature

I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.

larryhammer

I totally forgot to post this yesterday, which is possibly indicative of … something. So here, have it for Poetry Tuesday instead:

what if a much of a which of a wind, e. e. cummings

what if a much of a which of a wind
gives truth to the summer’s lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to fiend:blow space to time)
—when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man

what if a keen of a lean wind flays
screaming hills with sleet and snow:
strangles valleys by ropes of thing
and stifles forests in white ago?
Blow hope to terror;blow seeing to blind
(blow pity to envy and soul to mind)
—whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees,
it’s they shall cry hello to the spring

what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of his grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
Blow soon to never and never to twice
(blow life to isn’t:blow death to was)
—all nothing’s only our hugest home;
the most who die,the more we live

---L.

Subject quote from On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble, A. E. Housman.

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coffle (KOF-uhl, KAW-fuhl) - n., a line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves. v., to fasten in a coffle.

Or a caravan of camels crossing the desert:

Thanks, WikiMedia!

This example is not random, because it's the root sense: taken in the 1790s from Arabic qāfila, caravan. Just to be clear, though, the primary use today is for prisoners chained in a line.

---L.

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fossorial (fo-SAWR-ee-uhl, fo-SOHR-ee-uhl) - (zool.) adj., adapted to digging and burrowing; living underground

Okay, if I'd been paying attention, I'd've run this one right after cursorial, and be ready to run arboreal immediately after. Ah, well. This was also coined in the 1830s from Late Latin, though in this case from fossōrius, of digging, from Latin fossor, digger, from fodere, to dig (ultimately from PIE *bʰedʰh₂-, to pierce/dig).

---L.

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I’ve been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite,
can stop the bleeding — most people forgot this
when the war ended. The war ended
depending on which war you mean: those we started,
before those, millenia ago and onward,
those which started me, which I lost and won —
these ever-blooming wounds.
I was built by wage. So I wage love and worse—
always another campaign to march across
a desert night for the cannon flash of your pale skin
settling in a silver lagoon of smoke at your breast.
I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver you
the hard pull of all my thirsts—
I learned Drink in a country of drought.( Read more... )

From Postcolonial Love Poem - pg 1

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20-Minute Creamy Coconut Rice Pudding Recipe by Mama Gourmand, website tagline "gluten-free made easy." The recipe includes an optional cinnamon whipped cream topping which I didn't attempt.

What I had in the house was a can of coconut cream, so I scooped some out into a 3/4 cup measure, and added water to fill both the can and the measuring cup. Turned out great! I used the full amount of sugar, 1/3 cup, and it tasted a little too sweet.

Recipe as I made it:
Time
20 min

Tools
Medium pot, stove

Ingredients
2 cups cups cooked white rice
13.5 ounce canned coconut cream (not milk)
⅓ cup granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup: scoop of coconut cream, add water to make 3/4 cup, and add water to fill the can of coconut cream back up.
1 large egg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

( Comes together pretty fast )

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“say you don’t need no diamond rings/and i’ll be satisfied/tell me that you want the kind of things”

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Wednesday, April 23 - Theme: Crime

Just One Thing (23 April 2025)

sewer stories

Belly dance hero

More signs of spring

“Through him the gale of life blew high; / The tree of man was never quiet”

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Monday, April 21 - Theme: Mystery

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Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

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